ebulletin: March 2009
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General interest
Date: 26 March, 2009
Location: Coventry University - GE619 (download map, pdf)
Event type: Workshop
Date: 16 April, 2009 - 17 April, 2009
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
The Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning (CEMLL) invites proposals for the development of projects that facilitate language teaching and learning in a multimedia laboratory.
LLAS runs an annual student essay competition open to anyone studying languages, linguistics or area studies as part of their HE course.
Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is an online peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate students of languages, linguistics and area studies. It aims to showcase scholarship carried out by undergraduate students in these subject areas. The first issue was launched in June 2010.
Languages
Date: 20 March, 2009
Location: Mansfield Cooper Building - Room 2.1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 13 March, 2009
Location: Leeds Metropolitan University
Event type: Workshop
This workshop is open to all those whose institutions are members of UCML. The workshop aims to present the use of work allocation models across various types of universities and encourage participants to share practice and ideas. It is aimed at Heads of departments and others who use work allocation models in their management of language staff. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 28 March, 2009
Location: University of Leicester, Attenborough Seminar block SB1.14
Event type: Other
The event is a training day specifically designed for teachers of Italian as L2 working in Higher Education, but it is certainly of interest also to those teaching Italian in Further Education, and Secondary Schools. The workshops and seminars cover the use of AAV and multimedia technologies in the foreign language classroom, examples of how to use forum, wiki, and blogs. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 3 April, 2009
Location: University of Glamorgan
Event type: Workshop
Date: 16 April, 2009 - 17 April, 2009
Location: Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
Event type: Conference
This international conference is organised jointly by the UK SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Languages of the Wider World (LWW CETL) and the MERCATOR European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning of the Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands.
All people have the right to learn and use their mother-tongue, and to learn a second and third language. This formal right is often absent and its use in practice is often less well guaranteed and less developed than should be the case, especially for speakers of smaller languages variously labelled as ‘regional’, ‘minority’, ‘immigrant’, ‘community’ (including sign languages), ‘heritage’ languages, etc. The conference will focus on theoretical and empirical work in research and implementation of teaching and learning models and strategies for language learning. This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from these various fields to define, analyse and explore new directions and paradigms for ‘Languages of the Wider World’. It will also provide opportunities for further research and future collaborations.
For further information, please visit the conference website or contact James Grindrod at j.grindrod@soas.ac.uk
Date: 7 May, 2009 - 8 May, 2009
Location: The Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Event type: Seminar
I. To bring together researchers involved in both emergent and established academic corpora (written and spoken) as well as linguists, lecturers and teachers researching in education, be it language teaching, language teacher-training or continuing professional development in language awareness, who may be new to corpora and its applications. II. To explore the possibilities of working together. For more information, please see the conference website.
Proposals are invited for contributions to the European Journal of Language Policy / Revue européenne de politique linguistique, which is published by Liverpool University Press, in association with the Conseil européen pour les langues / European Language Council, and edited by Michael Kelly (University of Southampton, UK).
Linguistics
Date: 10 March, 2009
Location: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Elvet Riverside, room 148, Durham DH1 3JT
Event type: Seminar presentation and discussion
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 26 September, 2009
Location: The Hawthorns, University of Bristol
Event type: Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium
Date: 7 May, 2009 - 8 May, 2009
Location: The Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Event type: Seminar
I. To bring together researchers involved in both emergent and established academic corpora (written and spoken) as well as linguists, lecturers and teachers researching in education, be it language teaching, language teacher-training or continuing professional development in language awareness, who may be new to corpora and its applications. II. To explore the possibilities of working together. For more information, please see the conference website.
Area Studies
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
